Riley

Its design is pattern BGKGKGWG — the page of every tartan sharing this colour sequence.

The Riley tartan is recorded as a single sett.

Sett	ΔTartan	Thread count	Threads	Date
Riley		B/52 G12 K16 G6 K16 G60 W6 G/6	290	1953

Nearest tartans

The nearest NAMED TARTANS — each represented by its master sett — by ΔTartan distance from this tartan's master, which leads the table so the swatches line up against it.

ΔTartan

Threads

Variant

Sett

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290

Riley

1.70

274

Marie Curie Fields of Hope

1.75

186

Keppoch

1.80

254

Taylor

1.84

240

Marie Curie Fields Of Hope

1.85

304

O'Connell, William

2.19

216

Tweedside Hunting

2.23

94

AIton

2.28

194

Graden

2.29

288

Flower of Scotland

2.34

268

Abercrombie

Neighbour map

Every grey dot is one of 10814 named tartans (their master setts) placed by the first two principal components of the ΔTartan feature space (42% of its variance). Red is this tartan; blue dots are its nearest — click one to open its master cloth. The map is a flat projection of a many-dimensional space — how to read it.